Something has to be done about gold farmers

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Something has to be done about gold farmers

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DarthOvertone

05.15.2014 , 11:51 AM \| #41	Quote
Ignore works pretty good in these cases. Although it is pretty annoying that you have to ignore the same individual numerous times for each Alt that you have. Both the Friends List and Ignore List should be Legacy-wide imo.
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DarthTHC

05.15.2014 , 12:25 PM \| #42	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by Wylf There are still lots of ways to mask an URL while spamming. Hell, if I were a seller I'd just start spamming tinyurl links :P The problem is not insurmountable. WoW solved it to the extent that the spammers had to get to the point of killing themselves in just the right spots to spell out their messages in bodies. The only reason we still see credit spam in this game is that the developers don't care enough about it to prioritize it.

TUXs

05.15.2014 , 12:44 PM \| #43	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by DarthMaulUK In steps the fan boy AGAIN The irony is that even doing it ONE time is better than what Bioware has done which is apparently nothing.
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TUXs

05.15.2014 , 12:45 PM \| #44	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by DarthOvertone Ignore works pretty good in these cases. Although it is pretty annoying that you have to ignore the same individual numerous times for each Alt that you have. *Both the Friends List and Ignore List should be Legacy-wide imo*. Completely agree! It's beyond stupid that I ignore on one character, switch to another just to be bombarded by the same crap I just ignored.
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CecilPaladin

05.15.2014 , 12:52 PM \| #45	Quote
For the internet new folks (yes even Bioware), you can ban IP addresses and specific subnet domains. People do it ALL the time for voice chat systems like Vent, TS, Mumble. It's really not that hard to prevent these spammers from logging in again. I'd say an active week of monitoring, and they go away forever.

MillionsKNives

05.15.2014 , 01:04 PM \| #46	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by DarthTHC Yeah, writing a filter that strips the white space out before comparing to a configurable list of known spammer URLs and their variants is a task well beyond what a skilled MMO developer could accomplish. b-u-y-c-r-e-d-i-t-s.< <> /\/\ *bcdsl* uril*.com yeto******** buycreditsI0I.c0/V\

DarthTHC

05.15.2014 , 01:27 PM \| #47	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by MillionsKNives b-u-y-c-r-e-d-i-t-s.< <> /\/\ *bcdsl* uril*.com yeto******** buycreditsI0I.c0/V\ I'll type it again because it's obviously easy to miss twice. Blizzard implemented a text filter in WoW so good that spammers had to resort to killing their characters in very specific ways to get their message across... they could not do it in text. If Blizzard can do it, BioWare can do it. The problem is not the technical challenge, it's lack of caring on BioWare's part.

Khevar

05.15.2014 , 01:39 PM \| #48	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by DarthTHC Blizzard implemented a text filter in WoW so good that spammers had to resort to killing their characters in very specific ways to get their message across... they could not do it in text. I hadn't heard of this before. What about their solution made it so effective?

DarthTHC

05.15.2014 , 01:46 PM \| #49	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by Khevar I hadn't heard of this before. What about their solution made it so effective? I wish I knew how they coded it. I only know that chat spam was non-existent and I was quite impressed the times I saw a herd of people arrange themselves just so and die together and their bodies spelled out a gold-seller site.

MillionsKNives

05.15.2014 , 01:55 PM \| #50	Quote
Quote: Originally Posted by DarthTHC I'll type it again because it's obviously easy to miss twice. Blizzard implemented a text filter in WoW so good that spammers had to resort to killing their characters in very specific ways to get their message across... they could not do it in text. If Blizzard can do it, BioWare can do it. The problem is not the technical challenge, it's lack of caring on BioWare's part. I think you mean once? If it was so easy then why do most MMOs suffer from the same issue? Also, my response was aimed at the post I quoted where you mentioned just stripping out whitespace. My examples aren't solved quite so easily.

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